Lot 1510
THOMAS BEACH (1738-1806)
PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH, MRS WILLIAM HELYAR (d.1786) nee WESTON
Seated three-quarter length, wearing an oyster dress and black lace shawl, holding a miniature box, oil on canvas
125 x 101cm.
Provenance: By direct descent in the family of the sitter and through Colonel and Mrs Walker Heneage by 1937
Exhibited: Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Art Treasures of the West Country, May 24th-June 26th 1937, no.126 (lent by Colonel and Mrs Walker Heneage, label on frame)
Literature: Elise S. Beach, `Thomas Beach - A Dorset Portrait Painter` (London, 1934), ref.159 (p.63)
